thank you all for your gallery submissions!

Thank you all for the many submissions of your laptop skins for our laptop skin gallery - they're all beautiful and we really appreciate the effort! Please keep them coming!  We would like to show the world how our skins look in real life - if you bought a laptop skin on laptopskins.net, please send a picture of the applied skin to info@laptopskins.net so we can add it to our gallery. thank you very much!

custom laptop skins for asus EEE PC 8G, 4G and 2G

you can order any design from laptopskins.net as a custom notebook sticker for your Asus EEE PC 2G, 4G or 8G right now: simply order the skin as a custom size and enter the dimensions 21.5 cm x 15.4 cm (8.46 in x 6.06 in) - the skin will fit your EEEPC perfectly. Check out the selection and make your EEEPC stand out even more! there are more images on flickr.

New customer photo gallery

check out the new laptop skin gallery for your pics - powered by tiltviewer, the images are displayed in a gorgeous 3D view and it's simply fun to browse through them. we would like to show the world how our skins look in real life - if you bought a laptop skin on laptopskins.net, please send a picture of the applied skin to info@laptopskins.net so we can add it to our gallery. thank you very much!

laptopskins.net wins iF communcation design award

i just received the mail that this year's jury considered laptopskins.net worth an iF communcation design award!

For over fifty years iF Industrie Forum Design e.V. has had its roots at the Hannover exhibition center. Launched in 1953 as the “Special Show for Well-designed Industrial Goods”, this registered association — as indicated by the German abbreviation “e.V.” — was expanded in 2001 to include a new operating arm: iF International Forum Design GmbH. This organization is now responsible for all iF business areas — above all for staging the renowned iF award competitions.

As an independent institution iF exercises a decisive mediating role between design and industry, fulfilling this function for many years now in an objective and reputable manner. This special capacity allows iF to make a significant contribution to the success of design services in an economic context as well as enhancing public awareness of the importance of design.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

at least, that's what they say. Stumbling across lapschticks manufacturer schtickers.com today, I found resemblances that are more than a coincidence: schitckers.com is using laptopskins.net's own laptop photo to promote their own stickers.

Checking the the dates via the wayback machine, it turns out schtickers.com had been presenting their stickers as frontal photographs since the launch of their site:

then, in december 2006 laptopskins.net launches, as far as we know as the first site displaying laptop skins in a 3D position:

sometime in january of 2007, schtickers.com suddenly begins using the same angle, the same laptop model, lighted in the same way, to promote their laptop skins:

Taking the detail image from their site, resizing it a little and comparing it with what we consider to be the original image it turns out that the laptop photos are identical.

Well, it's good to see we seem to have had the right idea to present the skins like that - that makes us proud. And obviously, the photography seems be good as well - good enough for schtickers.com to use, anyway. Would have been nice to be asked though - copyright is copyright.

laptopskins.net accepted into german advertising yearbook

today i received the 2008 edition of the german advertising yearbook "Jahrbuch der Werbung" - and laptopskins.net made it into the book! 

The jury judged many thousand entries, only a few of which made it into the book - I'm very proud of this achievement. Yay!

new designs: warning laptop skins

make a clear statement with our new warning sign laptop skins: radioactive, electric, deadly, poisonous, explosive... whatever suits your mood or character.

new designs: typography laptop skins

now that should be something for the graphic designers and book lovers out there: your favourite fonts as typographic laptop skin. we have nine skin designs with 9 all-time great fonts available: bodoni, frutiger, rotis, officina, helvetica, times, haettenschweiler, gil sans and cooper black. each of them a very characteristic font face that will make your notebook really stand out.

new designs: paisley laptop skins

finally there are fashion-inspired laptop skins for all the notebook fashionistas available on laptopskins.net: our collection of paisley patterns (you might know them as persian pickles) give your laptops the certain "je ne sais quoi".

MacBook Air Laptop Skins

So there it is - a revelation, if not even a revolution. The MacBook Air is just 0.76 inches thick and still it's a complete, full power ultra-portable laptop. Of course, you can already get amazing laptop skins for the MacBook Air at laptopskins.net - order any laptop skin in a custom size of 12.6 x 8.7 inches and it will fit your brandnew MacBook Air perfectly.

original laptop skins art on picasa

all our more than 100 original laptopskin designs are now available for you to browse through on google's excellent picasaweb - enjoy!

Customer Photos and News Integration on laptopskins.net

we just uploaded a major update to laptopskins.net.
we have integrated the newsfeed from our laptop skin blog to have you up-to-date anytime while on the site: new features, how-to's, new designs, updates - it'll be right there for you to see.

also, there is now a feed of customer photos from our laptop skin gallery on flickr. we know our laptop skins look great not only on the site, but also on your notebook - and now we're proving it.

select your laptop skin size

we just uploaded a new and improved size selection update to laptopskins.net. you can now select a skin size from the 5 most common notebook sizes. apart from that, you have the option to choose a custom size for your laptop skin. this will make it much easier to find the appropriate sticker size for you and we hope you enjoy the new elegant way of ordering your notebook sticker.

how to apply a laptop skin sticker to your notebook

a simple how-to instruction photo series on how to apply a laptop skin sticker to your notebook. these instructions generally apply to all kinds of notebook stickers, but they were photographed and written by and for www.laptopskins.net

step 1: make sure your notebook is clean. wipe it off with a soft cloth. the notebook should be free of dust, fat and grease - otherwise the laptopskin may not stick to your laptop as well as it's supposed to.

step 2: check if the laptop skin size is correct. you can always trim the size of the skin with a cutter knife. if your laptop has hinges like the one shown, you could cut out the hinges from the skin to have an even more perfect fit.

step 3: peel away a small part of the sticker.

step 4: align the laptop skin on your notebook. take care that you put it on straight and in the exact position that you want to place it. as long as you don't push down on the exposed part of the sticker, you're free to move the skin around as you wish.

step 5: stick down the first part of the skin once you're certain you have it in the right position.

step 6: peel off the remaining sticker backside slowly, while at the same time gently pushing down on the exposed skin. by sticking it on gently bit by bit, you can avoid air bubbles under the skin. if there are bubbles under the sticker, simply peel it back a little and stick it back on.

step 7: you're done! ta-daa! see, that was easy - and the result is stunning, don't you think?